Java Edition 20w27a

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20w27a is the first snapshot for Java Edition 1.16.2, released on July 1, 2020,^[2] which adds piglin brutes and fixes bugs.

Spawn eggs

• 👁 Image
  Piglin brute spawn egg

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Piglin brutes

• Stronger variants of piglins that wield golden axes.
• Are always hostile towards players, unlike piglins.
• Have 50HP👁 ❤️
  × 25 health.
• Only spawn during world generation in bastion remnants.

Tags

• Added mushroom_grow_block block tag.
  • Contains mycelium, podzol, and crimson and warped nylium.
  • Used to determine which blocks mushrooms can be placed on and which blocks huge mushrooms can grow on, even if the light level is high.

Brown and red mushrooms

• Can now be placed and grown on both types of nylium.

Crimson and warped fungi

• Can now be placed on mycelium.
  • Still only grow into a huge fungus on the respective nylium.

Zoglins

• Can now be leashed.

Bastion remnants

• Now spawn piglin brutes on world generation.
  • Normal piglins still spawn.

Advancements

• Piglin brutes are now used for the "Monster Hunted" advancement and count toward the "Monsters Hunter" advancement.

Menu

• Dropping resource packs into the menu now updates the list of resource packs without needing a reload.
• Data packs can now have a pack.png in the root folder, and will display it in the data pack menu.

28 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.16

• MC-1058 – A dragon head is invisible if the entity wearing it is not in view.
• MC-2404 – Stepping down while sneaking allows falling off of blocks.
• MC-49476 – NBT HideFlags does not hide "Dyed" on leather armor.
• MC-68487 – Player heads of the same player always have the same skin texture, even if the saved texture data is different.
• MC-97507 – Using item which modifies the held item shows "Gear equips" subtitle.
• MC-145691 – Binding "Open/Close Inventory" to only opens the inventory.
• MC-150417 – Some items get stuck in soul sand when there is liquid above the soul sand.
• MC-160723 – Bamboo crouch sliding off.
• MC-180447 – Game crashes when placing player head down.

From 1.16

• MC-171739 – Weeping and twisting vines, bamboo, and kelp can be replaced by "saplings" by breaking and placing the block at the same time.
• MC-174762 – Villager iron golem respawn timer is reset when the chunk is reloaded.
• MC-177941 – Twisting and weeping vines always have an age of 0 when placed by a player.
• MC-178729 – Red and brown mushrooms cannot be grown into huge mushrooms on nylium, while they can on all other "grass" blocks.
• MC-182652 – Ruined portals do not always generate with a chest.
• MC-183663 – Farmer villagers do not compost correctly.
• MC-183743 – Iron golem overpopulation bug.
• MC-185274 – Subtitles still show "Gear equips" when eating in snapshot 20w21a or newer.
• MC-188473 – Resource pack screen no longer updates when adding or removing resource packs.
• MC-188969 – Having a suspicious stew in a player’s inventory prevents any type of suspicious stew from going into their inventory when milking a brown mooshroom.
• MC-189909 – player_interacted_with_entity does not trigger if there is only one item and the item gets consumed.
• MC-190021 – Trying to mount a pig or strider while sneaking plays the hand animation.
• MC-190266 – Players and other entities can catch on fire after logging on while riding a strider in lava.
• MC-190274 – Collecting liquids in bottles in creative mode is inconsistent with the new creative mode bucket mechanics.
• MC-190849 – Slime blocks can only push entities 5 blocks high instead of 6 blocks high as in 1.15.2.
• MC-191467 – Resource packs screen is not updated in real time when packs are dropped in the folder.

From 1.16.1

• MC-191915 – While in a boat the elytra does not show as enchanted.
• MC-191953 – End gateway occasionally fails to teleport player to/from the End islands.
• MC-192894 – Transparency layers lose their auxiliary depth buffer ID when resized.